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17 Dec 2008 @ 06:08 by : The Spark
Looking for that spark that leads to the development of a flame.
I talked to my comp one students tonight about all the verb tenses
that are available to them when they are trying to think about how
to say what they want to say. I don't expect them to memorize all
of these things. I have no idea how what I say is going to affect
any of them, but perhaps, just perhaps, something I say will register
with one or more of their cereberal neurons and they will have some
little insight that will help them become a slightly better writer
than they were when this course started.
Once upon a time, a little boy got a Christmas present of a set of
Ninja turtles. He played with them and was fascinated with them.
One day he was playing in a water ditch and one of his Ninja characters
fell in the water. The boy waded into the water to retrieve it, and as he
did so, the waves of a flash flood came roaring down the channel, and swept the boy along. The wave carried him quite a ways, and when he finally got to a place where he was safe, he had that little Ninja turtle in his hand. He was so happy that he had found it.
As time went on, he went to martial arts school, and learned Tae Kwon Do,
and perhaps a few other things of that nature. There was a time when he was a young teenager when he was confronted by a thief who demanded money. The boy refused to give anything to the thief, so the thief pulled out a knife and attacked. The boy was stabbed twice, but was able to thwart and disable the thief with his martial arts skills.
Later, when he was an older teenager, he had an opportunity to go to Thailand for some special schooling in the martial arts that he had become proficient at. He learned a lot there, and was invited to a special competition where he also did well.
Who would have ever thought what a little toy could do to a boy's imagination?
